President Trump spends a lot of time at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate he purchased in 1985 and has since turned into a private club. While he nominally resided in New York at the time that he first ran for president, Trump has claimed the Palm Beach estate as his primary residence since 2019.
Trump often hosts world leaders and groveling Republican underlings at the estate, but the general public doesn’t get much of a look at most of the estate.
But The Daily Mail this week resurfaced a look at the private quarters at Mar-a-Lago.
The pictures were taken in 1999 and come from Through The Keyhole, a Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-like TV series hosted by British presenter David Frost and American broadcaster Lloyd Grossman.
Peek inside Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago quarters: Unearthed footage reveals ‘fairytale’ bedroom and other secrets https://t.co/y6XRkawgkD
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) February 21, 2025
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“The camera sweeps around a vast baronial hall decorated with coats of arms in the style of a French chateau. It turns out that Trump calls this his ‘living room,'” the Mail story about the TV episode says. “Renaissance copies of classical Roman busts stare down at the visitors and ‘add a bit of imperial splendor,’ says presenter Grossman. They hint that the owner might have ‘a powerful personality.'”
“We visit an ornate children’s bedroom with squirrel-shaped doorknobs, porcelain figurines from Alice in Wonderland, and life-like rambling roses in branches of sculpted plaster on the walls,” the Daily Mail story continues. It adds that to this day, visitors to Mar-a-Lago are forbidden from taking photographs of the interior.
The full episode is available to watch on YouTube:
As in most old interviews with Trump, it’s notable how much more lucid his speech was then than it is today. While Frost famously interviewed another president, Richard Nixon, in 1977, in a story told in the play and movie Frost/Nixon, he was much less demanding of Trump in the interview.
Trump famously buried his first wife, Ivana, at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. A recent report in The Daily Beast stated that Trump’s second ex-wife, Marla Maples, has emerged as the “belle” of Mar-a-Lago.
“With First Lady Melania Trump habitually missing in action during events—and appearing habitually aloof when she is present—Maples has seemingly cultivated a role of her own as a Mar-a-Lago mainstay and one of the most public-facing cheerleaders of her ex-husband’s administration,” The Beast said.
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